Tuesday, June 24, 2014
"On Fox, Greg Gutfeld Calls Out Media on School Shooting Stat"
Once again, the media has run with phony information.
I know they sometimes issue corrections, but the original story is what sticks in people's minds...
I know they sometimes issue corrections, but the original story is what sticks in people's minds...
At NewsBusters.org, Kristine Marsh recently called attention to this bum statistic and how the media handled it:
"Some facts are too convenient for the media to check, or retract. Earlier this week Newsbusters reported that the media hyped a statistic about school shootings that originated from Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun group 'Everytown for Gun Safety.’ There have been, according to the widely reported stat, 74 school shootings since Sandy Hook. The media dutifully repeated the number until it was debunked.
While CNN later retracted and amended their reporting of the questionable count to a much lower number, 15, NBC and ABC did not bother to correct their stories using that statistic. On last night’s ‘The Five’ Fox host Greg Gutfeld took issue with the media’s blatant blindness to the true data."
